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And, of course, Google will honor this and any other setting, as always, right? Right?
That's such bs short digital fingerprint is anything compressed and encrypted
If you've got an android, go into your phone's dev options and try to turn off Google's location tracking service, or the one that tracks screen inputs, or the one that checks what wifi networks are around you.
They've been dishonourable from day 1 :C
As soon as they got away with "federated learning" (basically use your phone to train ai then just phone the results home rather than your data) 🤢 they knew they could just keep pushing and pushing and pushing until they have it all